USPTO Patents Application 10066432

Attorney's Docket No.: 07039-246001

IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

Thomas F. Smith et al. Art Unit : 1637

10/066,432 Examiner : Kenneth R. Horlick

January 31,2002

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5,837,452

11/17/98

Clark et al.

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Foreign Patent Documents or Published Foreign Patent Applications

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Number

Publication
Date

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WO 00/70096

11/23/00

PCT

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0 338 591

10/25/89

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Dther Documents (include Author, Title, Date, and Place of Publication)

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Holland et al., "PCR Detection of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 Directly from Stools: Evaluation of
Commercial Extraction Methods for Purifying Fecal DNA," J. Clin. Microbiol., 2000, 38:4108-41 13

Al

Machiels et al.. "New Protocol for DNA Extraction of Stool" BioTechniques, 2000, 28:286-290

AJ

McOrist et al., "A comparison of five methods for extraction of bacterial DNA from human faecal
samples," J. Microbiological Methods, 2002, 50:131-39

AK

Van der Hoek et al, "Isolation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) RNA from
Feces by a Simple Method and Difference between HIV-1 Subpopulations in Feces and Serum," J.
Clin. Microbiol., 1995, 33:581-588

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